Yale QB Rawlings Named Ivy League Player of the Week

Yale QB Kurt Rawlings has been named the Ivy League's Player of the
Week. Rawlings threw for a career-high 344 yards and 4 TDs vs. Mercer.
(Photo courtesy Yale University)

NEW HAVEN–Yale junior
quarterback Kurt Rawlings comes from horse country in Bel Air, Md. Last Saturday he was a great mudder on the soggy Yale Bowl track against a highly-regarded FCS foe. Rawlings threw for a career-high 344 yards and four touchdowns to lead the Bulldogs to a 35-28 win over Mercer, a performance that earned him Ivy League Offensive Player of the Week for the first time this fall.

Five hours of rain before the game didn't stop the Yale offense from putting up big numbers on the natural grass of the Class of 1954 Field. Rawlings completed 23 of 35 passes while connecting on scoring plays of 2, 16, 38 and 57 yards.

Junior receivers JP Shohfi (2 TDs) and Reed Klubnik (1) had the bulk of the scoring catches while first-year Jaylan Sandifer had the 38-yarder, his first career TD reception.

Rawlings, who also earned College Sports Madness Ivy Player of the Week honors after the Mercer game, got the Gold Helmet from the New England Sports Writers on Sept. 29 for his outing against Maine. He now has nine TD passes and 1,425 passing yards over five games in 2018.

The QB wasn't the only Bulldog to be recognized in the last non-league game of the year. First-year linebacker Noah Pope, who had five tackles, two forced fumbles and a sack, earned Ivy Honor Roll status.

The Elis (3-2, 1-1) have a crucial Ivy contest at Penn (4-1, 1-1) this Friday at 7 p.m.

IVY HONORS FOR OCT. 12-13

OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK

• Kurt Rawlings, Yale (Jr., QB–Bel Air, Md.)  

DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK

• Mark Fossati, Princeton (Sr., LB–Upper Saddle River, N.J.) 

SPECIAL TEAMS PLAYER OF THE WEEK

• Jack McIntyre, Harvard (Jr., K–Orlando, Fla.)  

 ROOKIE OF THE WEEK

• Mohammed Diakite, Penn (Fr., DB–Northampton, Pa.)  

 HONOR ROLL

• Noah Pope, Yale (Fr., LB–Memphis, Tenn.) 
• Michael Hoecht, Brown (Jr., DL–Oakwood, Ohio) 
• Livingstone Harriott, Brown (Jr., WR–Central Islip, N.Y.) 
• Josh Bean, Columbia (So., QB–Hindsdale, Ill.) 
• Ryan Gilbert, Columbia (Sr., DB–Bellevue, Wash.) 
• Drew Schmid, Columbia (So., P–San Diego, Calif.) 
• Jelani Taylor, Cornell (Jr., S–Beecher, Mich.) 
• Jared Gerbino, Dartmouth (Jr., QB–Rush, N.Y.) 
• Andrew Lemkuil, Dartmouth (Jr., LB–West Hartford, Conn.) 
• Kyran McKinney-Crudden, Dartmouth (Sr., NB–Glastonbury, Conn.)
• Stone Hart, Harvard (Sr., DL–Olympia, Wash.) 
• Aaron Shampklin, Harvard (So., RB  
• Karekin Brooks, Penn (Jr., RB–Marietta, Ga.) 
• Nick Miller, Penn (Sr., LB–New Market, Md.) 
• Kevin Davidson, Princeton (Jr., QB–Danville, Calif.) 
• Jesper Horsted, Princeton (Sr., WR–Shoreview, Minn.)

—Staff Reports